Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko gets some help from his son while casting a ballot in national elections.<br/> <br />The polls, held Sunday, will decide the makeup of the country's 110-member parliament.<br/> <br />But opposition parties are boycotting the ballot, calling it a sham designed to mask Lukashenko's iron grip on power.<br/> <br />They cheekily suggested voters do something else with their day, like pick mushrooms.<br/> <br />The combative president, who has run Belarus since 1994, called his opponents "cowards" and said they had nothing to offer the people.<br/> <br />Belarus, a small, former Soviet bloc country, has not had free and fair elections in over 15 years, say Western monitors.
